Dr Adam Edwards

I have a keen interest in collaborative and inter-disciplinary research including work with lawyers, political scientists, computer scientists and sociologists interested in the impact of emergent technologies, such as social media and advanced robotics, on issues of law, governance and regulation in relation to problems of crime, security and justice. I also have a track record of research on the politics of security in European city-regions and on the organisation of serious crimes.

Honours and awards

Member of The Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), University of the West Indies: 2016+

2013: Plenary speaker at the inaugural seminar of the Howard League for Penal Reform’s Symposium on ‘What is Justice?’, London, May 2013

2013: Staff seminar, postgraduate seminar and undergraduate lecture programme at the School of Journalism and Communications, University of Queensland, Brisbane, April 2013

2013: Staff seminar at the Centre for Criminal Justice Research, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, April 2013

2013: Plenary speaker at the Irish Presidency meeting of the European Crime Prevention Network (EUCPN), Dublin, March 2013

2012: Plenary speaker at the Flemish Centre for Police Studies and the Dutch Foundation for Society, Security and Police, special conference on ‘Tides and Currents in Contemporary Policing’, Deinze (near Ghent), December 2012

2012: Plenary speaker, National Centre for Social Research, ‘Blurring the Boundaries – New Social Media, New Social Science’ event, Royal Institute of British Architecture, May 2012.

I have been centrally involved in the design as well as the delivery of the single honours degree programme in criminology in Cardiff University's School of Social Sciences and its MSc in Crime, Safety and Justice. This involvement reflects my pedagogic interests in the interrelationship of theory, method and data, how this can distinguish the social sciences from other narratives about social life and how it can facilitate their contribution to deliberative democracy.

Current Undergraduate Teaching

Theory and Method in Contemporary Criminology (SI0200)

Criminological Practice (SI0204)

Dissertation supervision (SI0301)

Current Postgraduate Teaching

Researching Crime, Safety and Justice

Principles and Practice of Research Design & Methods

Dissertation supervision

PhD Supervision

Thomas Cartwright: Community Safety in an age of Austerity: An urban regime analysis of Cardiff 1999-2015, awarded 13th December 2016.

Danielle Rayner: Informal Social Control in the Context of De-industrialisation and Disinvestment, awarded 30th May 2013.

2013 – 2015, Understanding the role of social media in the aftermath of youth suicides. Funded by Department of Health, England. £200,000, Co-investigator (with Scourfield, Williams, Burnap and Housley).

2013-2014, Supporting Empirical Digital Social Research for the Social Sciences with a Virtual Research Environment. Funded by JISC, £55,519, Co-Investigator (with Burnap, Williams, Rana, Housley & Avis).

2011 - 2014, Urban Manager for Security, Safety and Crisis Management (‘project Urbis’), Leonardo Life Long Learning Programme of the Education and Culture DG of the European Commission, Euro 505,475 (with Sinergie (Italy), European Forum for Urban Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia, and the regional government of Izmir, Turkey).